Adoption Terms Violated

[Proserpina]

The hospital may not have the right to seek payment from the OP's GF. In any case, the hospital has no obligation to seek payment from the adoptive parents and, in fact, CANNOT do so, as they had no contract.

How would OP's girlfriend establish exactly who is responsible?

(If she was a ward of the state, wouldn't she have been medicaid-type insurance?)

 

[mcale]

She was supposed to be on state covered insurance. They gave her a medicaid card. However, her information including ssn and name spelling was incorrect. Also they failed to send paperwork that changed the state insurance from a temporary coverage to coverage for the duration of the pregnancy.

 

[Proserpina]

She was supposed to be on state covered insurance. They gave her a medicaid card. However, her information including ssn and name spelling was incorrect. Also they failed to send paperwork that changed the state insurance from a temporary coverage to coverage for the duration of the pregnancy.

Let's see:

Girlfriend was ward of the state

Girlfriend had baby

Adoptive Parents adopt baby

Medicaid theoretically should have paid medical expenses with any out of pocket expenses being met by adoptive parents.

Got it so far?

 

[Zigner]

You may be well advised to speak to a collections attorney. Frankly, I am not convinced the hospital has the right to collect this debt from a (at the time) minor. But, it is not necessarily that simple.

 

[Zigner]

Let's see:

Girlfriend was ward of the state

Girlfriend had baby

Adoptive Parents adopt baby

Medicaid theoretically should have paid medical expenses with any out of pocket expenses being met by adoptive parents.

Got it so far?

That's the way I understand it...

 

[Proserpina]

Righty ho then.

OP - which state are you in?

 

[Proserpina]

That's the way I understand it...

Excellent - we're on the same page then

 

[mcale]

We live in wisconsin but the adoption and childs birth took place in MN

 

[mcale]

I am not sure what exactly ward of the state means. She was not a minor. She was 19 years old at the time of the birth.

 

[Proserpina]

We live in wisconsin but the adoption and childs birth took place in MN

Ah.

MN has some very interesting health coverage statutes...this may have just gotten even more complicated...

Why was the state involved if she was 19? Is she a vulnerable adult?

Or do you mean that the baby was female and the baby became a ward of state before being adopted?

 

[Isis1]

I am not sure what exactly ward of the state means. She was not a minor. She was 19 years old at the time of the birth.

then what does this mean

The details are that the child was a product of a rape and that she was in the care of the state at that point.

 

[Proserpina]

then what does this mean

Methinks baby is girl child and SHE became ward of state...which doesn't make a whole heckuva lot more sense than the alternative

 

[mcale]

Maybe the wording I used earlier was incorrect. All I meant by "in the care of the state" was that she was supposed to be on state insurance (medicaid). Then the child was required to be in foster care for a two week peroid before the adoptive parents took custody. (That is because of some MN adoption law)

 

[mcale]

She meaning my GF

 

[Zigner]

And, MEthinks, the OP's GF is responsible to the hospital.